We urge you to vote for BOSS (Build your Own Search Service), Yahoo’s game-changing open search web services platform, in the 2009 Crunchies Tech Innovation/Achievement category. Voting closes at midnight PST on Wednesday, January 7.
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of talking about the next iteration of Yahoo’s performance tool YSlow at a conference organized by CSDN in Beijing. It was a great opportunity to share the excitement about the upcoming YSlow 2.0 release and also talk to people who are actually using the current version in their daily development life.
While Sunnyvale hosts a quarterly 24-hour hack day, the Yahoo! Taiwan office just hosted an entire week to celebrate the new open vision of Yahoo!, and of course developers created a bunch of great hacks while they were at it (because what YDN event would be complete without some hardcore hacking).
The “Open Stack” refers to a set of technologies that work together to make it easier for web developers and users to manage access to user data across the Web. In a current depiction of the stack, Open ID is the top layer. Working down the stack, XRDS-Simple is next, followed by OAuth, Portable Contacts, and finally OpenSocial.
“The web has always been about the workaround,” says Doug Crockford in this next snippet from the closing keynote at Add-on Con earlier this month. Thanks to Robert Reich from OneRiot for producing and posting these bite-sized clips of highly nourishing browser discourse.
Earlier this month, Yahoos Douglas Crockford, DHTML evangelist/architect, and Lloyd Hilaiel, from BrowserPlus, participated in the first-ever Add-on Con, a conference to celebrate and explore the business and technology of browser add-ons.
As part of the next generation of Yahoo! Mail, developers will be able to build applications that will become part of the user experience for hundreds of millions of Yahoo! Mail users. Starting today, you can explore documentation and best practices for developing apps for the all-new Yahoo! Mail.
Starting today, developers can use the Yahoo! Application Platform to build apps that can be added and viewed on the My Yahoo! canvas. Developers can also use a new Theme API on My Yahoo! to design and share creative background themes.
Over the years, Pew Internet reports have schooled me in every aspect of how U.S citizens use the Internet. But I never expected to find myself quoted alongside the experts within the newly released The Future of the Internet III, by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie.
Whenever you build an interface like Yahoo! Pipes, that’s beautiful, intuitive and terribly powerful you will get one request: can we have a command line interface to this? This is just how developers roll, there is not much we can do about it.
This is where Yahoo Query Language (YQL for short) comes in.
This weekend I travelled back home to attend the two-day unconference spectacular that was BarCamp Liverpool. With 200 places available, local media interest, and a great venue, this was billed as one of the biggest BarCamps ever in the UK. On the day of there were more than enough people for the event to be a Trending Topic on Twitter.
If you thought that the YUI team had gone into hibernation to prepare for the spring and the final release of YUI3 – think again. There are three great pieces of news revolving around our beloved development framework: YUI is now available on GitHub: http://github.com/yui. This has been a constant thorn in the side of [...]
In a blog post earlier this year, we announced that people could search for just entries with specific microformats. There are 2 things we’d like to announce regarding that: We now support adr, geo and tag microformats. Yay! In the name of progress, we have added an extra namespace to the IDs to make room [...]
Last week Sophie Major, Jose Palazon and Chris Heilmann went to Grenoble, France to introduce the Yahoo Developer Network to the local developer community. It was the first Yahoo event of this kind in the city in the heart of the Alps and we are happy to pronounce it a success. Fortified with a quick [...]
